AN ACT
For the establishment of a Public Land Law Review Commission to study existing
laws and procedures relating to the administration of the public lands of the
United States, and for other purposes.
Section 10

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That—

DEFINITION OF "PUBLIC LANDS"

SEC. 10.

As used in this Act, the term "public lands" includes (a) the
public domain of the United States, (b) reservations, other than Indian reservations, created from the public domain, (c)
lands permanently or temporarily withdrawn, reserved, or withheld from private appropriation
and disposal under the public land laws, including the mining laws,
(d) outstanding interests of the United States in lands patented,
conveyed in fee or otherwise, under the public land laws, (e) national

forests, (f) wildlife refuges and ranges, and (g) the surface and subsurface resources of all such lands, including the disposition
or restriction on disposition of the mineral resources in lands defined by appropriate statute, treaty, or judicial determination
as being under the control of the United States in the Outer Continental Shelf.